Seven Legs Across the Seas

urteen Streams, to Vryburg, on to Mafeking, finds us nearly opposite the place started from, but headed in the right direction. A gap of 40 miles from Zeerust to the main l

,000 inhabitants are engaged in business connected with farming. Nearly a hundred miles further Mafeking was reached, which has been made historical in virtue of the seven-months' siege of Britishers during the Boer W

d. A railway station is built here and there along the line, where a few Europeans may be seen; but the country is wild and populated with natives. Were one to go to sleep for six or eight hours, upon waking up

e of the passengers. The natives' souvenirs were the images of giraffes, elephants, lions, tigers, storks and other animals cut out of wood and painted or dyed black, but many of the imitations were far fr

engers were bartering and haggling with the natives over the price of karosses, and others were ambitious to sell their souvenirs. The black mother had imbibed the "shopping" spirit, when she jocularly offered her babe for sale. "Half a crown!" (60 cents)

00 miles. The dust had become so thick in this stretch of the journey that the color of the passengers' clothes could not be detected. All the

every hospitality to the explorer, and espoused the Christian religion. Chief Khama, the grandson, is the most important ruler of Bechuanaland, and has spent some time in Europe; he conforms largely to European customs. Besides being a strict disciplinarian, he forbids the sale of liquo

ird, so named from feathers growing at the back of the head, which look like quill pens, is what is known as "royal game." "Royal game" are beasts or fowl that must not be killed. The reason the secretary bird is protected is beca

changes hands between natives and traders in out-of-the-way districts. For his skins and corn, or whatever the native ma

Plumtree, when we were in Matabeleland, Rhodesia. In this section Lobengula, the Matabele king, held undisputed sway until Cecil Rhodes decided to annex this part of Africa t

in his ambition, one of his virtues will always remain unquestioned-bravery. He wished his remains to rest where his greatest feat of daring took place. It was during the rebellion of the Matabeles in 1896-97 that Rhodes, unarmed,

ers his grave, which was chiseled out of a solid rock on the highest of the Matopo Hills. "World's Vie

arden, zo?logical park, museum and art gallery, schools, churches, business buildings, daily newspapers-all of a high order. Bulawayo, nearly 1,400 miles from Capetown, has a population of 5,000 whites. It is the largest town of Matabeleland, the center of the gold mining industry, and has had railway connection with the

an towns. But located in the country away from the metropolis are numerous gold mines, and Bulawayo is

onally sees the butt of a revolver sticking out of a hip pocket or at the side of a belt, and hunting knives, incased in a sheath, are carried by almost every one, particularly on leaving town. A rifle strapped over the shoulder of men coming in from country districts is a common thing to s

eir tribe-a native cabinet meeting-the meeting would be termed an "indaba." When Cecil Rhodes was engaged in dissuading the Matabele chi

ence of the Governor-General is built on the site of Lobengula's home, and it was under

about 5,000 feet, the weather is warmer

of Bulawayo was included "good hospitals." Wherever hospitals are seen frequently, particularly in small settlements, one is using sound judgment if he makes his escape from that place early, as otherwise he will soon be personally familiar with the interior of these institutions. Wherever hospital facilities of a small community are of the

in England, and those who come out and buy land soon find that their limited means are gone, and t

ca, the latter place being the port for Rhodesia; and northwesterly to Victoria Falls, and from that point 300 miles

e left the plains and passed through a forest of teak tr

to Rhodesia. None was over 25 years of age. I'm the only one left out of the fourteen," he concluded. Ask

, too, for the mineral may be seen cropping out of the ground on each side of the track. A

ssenger. "That's the spray from Victoria Falls. We have sev

, as the cheapest meal from Mafeking north was 60 cents, and the next cheapest 75 cents. But to one whose mind inclines to seeing the acme of nature's handicraft, promptings of this character outweigh financial considerations. Hotel accommodation at Victoria Falls

ntil they reached the Zambezi River. Most of these voortrekkers, however, were massacred by Matabeles. This occurred from ten to fifteen years earlier than

waters of the Zambezi slowly run, giving no intimation of what is taking place several miles below. On these islands

amely: Rainbow, Main and Cataract Falls. The distance from one side of the river to the other here is over a mile-5,808 feet, to be corr

f water crystals dart from the broad flow's filmy web and, jewel-like, embellish the absorbing water spread for a depth of 380 feet. Also rainbows revel in still further enhancing this crowning masterpiece of art-these, in beautifying, sharing a radiant part-the bars of iris, of lustrous, engrossing hues, burnishing the peerless tri-f

g like 200 feet in width, that looks as if it had been gnarled out not only by water, but that even some other powerful agency had taken part in making this cleavage. The wall rises again to its full height and maintains a solid, unbroken front for a quarter of a mile further to Cataract Falls, at the west bank of the river. The water from Rainbow Falls, at the east bank, and from Main Falls, in the center of the river, ru

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to the precipice over which the water passes, the picture being drawn w

i railway bridge, 450 feet above. On it turbulently runs, the water befoamed, through high, perpendicular walls of basaltic rock

huts showing dimly through the vegetation on the banks; the evergreen islands; the stillness of the water before making its plunge, contrasted with the wild-appearing, rugged, high, rocky wal

sky-blue water of Niagara with the dull color of Victoria Falls, the water of Niagara, after plunging over an unbroken stretch of rock ledge into a roomy, circular-shaped basin, assuming its true blue color, with the gradual narrowing of the banks to the Gorge; contrast

and was constructed by an American firm. Cecil Rhodes instructed the builders to er

, northeast by German East Africa, east by Portuguese East Africa, and south by Bechuanaland and the Transvaal. The shortest time in which a journey could be made from an American port to these falls is about five weeks. Landing at Capetown, four days' travel, on a slow train, mostly over a dry and dust

will not harm a person in the water; but crocodiles are generally found close to a hippopotamus, and the former are always hungry. As soon as the unfortunate occupants of a boat have been dumped overboard there is a swirl of water close by, another farther off, yet more disturbed water, when long, dull colored shapes come l

d empties into the Indian Ocean at Chinde, Portugues

odesia, and almost every one takes quinine to allay fever.

Smith knocking around?" "Is there a boat knocking around?" "Are there lio

they rob hen roosts, and even climb through pan

ngth, grow on some trees. The cream-of-tartar tree, however, will interest a visitor more. This one grows very large, and the bark is the color of a hippopotamus' skin. In fact, the bark of all trees has a dark color. The pod of the cream-of-tartar is the shape of a cucumbe

ash, and the drinking cup was the bowled-out end of a small calabash. Before the native served the beer he poured out some of the brew in the hollow of his hand and drank it. Then he tilted the vegetable

inches in length. This last is called a "piano." The small strips of steel are fastened at one end of the frame. By touching these with the fingers a faint musical sound is p

from two sheep to ten cows. Should the wife leave her husband-elope, for ins

cated Livingstone, the capital of Northwestern Rhodesia. Here, right in the heart of one of the fever regions of Africa, one finds smal

ns to traders or to mining camps located far from the railway, are provided with extra oxen. Lions are so numerous it frequently occurs that an ox is found in the morning dead and partly eaten, the work of Leo during the night while the ca

y virus he injects is extracted from the bodies of big wild game. Nagana is the name of the disease caused by the tsetse-fly bite. The scientific name for this fly is rather prosy-Glossina morsitans; also for a first cousin, whose bite likewi

ver which a cover is stretched. The ends of the pole rest on the shoulders of four natives-eight in all-who run along at a good gait, with their passengers in the hamm

ul if that number will ever be greater, for the large graveyards with numerous fresh mounds of dirt are becoming better known through th

n Congo, thence through that country, crossing the equator, until Uganda is reached. From Uganda it will traverse the Soudan, running thence into southern Egypt. At a point in this country the line will c

er the Matabeleland borderline into Bechuanaland, through the

eing round and grassy. With the deep blue sky above-the sun nearly always shining on the high veld, except during a shower of rain-and the same colored horizon all round, together with the rays from a bright sun lavishly diffus